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October 6, 2023
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Covington, La. – Please see the next assertion from PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel relating to the citations, together with one important repeat violation, posted by the U.S. Division of Agriculture towards the Tulane Nationwide Primate Analysis Middle for its violations of federal animal welfare laws:
Workers on the Tulane Nationwide Primate Analysis Middle proceed to make a water-tight case for shutting down this wretched facility, which flushes taxpayer cash down the bathroom each day and endangers the monkeys it imprisons with unchecked incompetence.
U.S. Division of Agriculture inspectors discovered useless rats on the bottom and within the ceilings together with rat poison in outside primate enclosures, in keeping with a just-posted report. The surface enclosures are suffering from damaged plastic barrels, fence posts, and damaged panels within the overgrown weeds simply outdoors the breeding facility, the place Canada geese have nested—and workers have failed to scrub up their waste. In keeping with the report, 4 monkeys in simply the previous three months have gotten caught within the webbing of the enclosures, one requiring surgical procedure.
Tulane is among the many seven nationwide primate analysis facilities that need $30 million extra in taxpayer funding in a invoice into consideration within the U.S. Senate, however they clearly don’t deserve a single penny of the cash they already get. Sources ought to be directed towards fashionable, non-animal analysis strategies, and we urge officers to undertake PETA’s Analysis Modernization Deal.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or comply with the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
